Amethyst (Jamunia)

Amethyst is a violet colored, semi-precious gemstone of the Quartz mineral family. As an astrological substitute of Blue Sapphire, it is
worn to overcome financial stress, professional instability and unhealthy addictions.

Who should wear Amethyst?

Amethyst (meaning Jamuniya, Katela or Ketela in Hindi) is associated with the planet Saturn. It is worn to strengthen weaker Saturn as well as to benefit from its favorable occupation in a person’s horoscope.

Amethyst Benefits

Amethyst is quite popular for its ability to calm restless and distracted minds and thus is highly beneficial in improving wearer’s productivity.

Cures Addictive Tendencies

– Since ancient times, Amethyst has been widely used for remedying self-destructive and addictive tendencies of human beings. People addicted to smoking, drinking and drug abuse can surely rely on this gemstone for quitting these habits.

Revives Lost Fortunes & Relationships

– Amethyst can revive unexpected opportunities, thereby helping the wearer to reclaim materialistic and financial comforts as well as repair lost or broken relationships.

Tranquilizes Anxious Minds

– Amethyst can soothe weak, fragile and anxious minds and thus is highly beneficial in curing insomnia, anxiety, fear and depression. Amethyst benefits surpass almost every other gemstone when it comes to improving mental focus, concentration and meditative abilities of the wearer.

Clears Mental Blockages

– Wearing amethyst can open stagnant or blocked minds, paving pathways for creative and logical solutions to emerge. For this reason, academicians, researchers and scholars, often resort to amethyst for success.

Improves Hair, Teeth & Bone Health

– Detoxification and cellular regeneration are some of the widely recognized Amethyst’s healing benefits in alternative medicine. It is also worn to cure Arthritis, Bone- Cancer and Paralysis.

Amethyst Stone Benefits:

Helps in quitting alcohol, smoking & drugs

Revives financial, materialistic and relationship wealth

Relieves Anxiety, Insomnia & Depression

Channelizes intellectual, creative energies

Improves mental focus, concentration and
meditative ability

Amethyst Prices

Being a robust gemstone (Moh’s hardness - 7) and abundantly available in nature, amethyst is used in jewelry on a commercial scale. Its prices are influenced more by the color and less by other factors. Yet origin, cut and clarity carry some degree of influence on its prices. Amethyst price per carat in India usually starts from ₹ 150 ($2) and can go up to ₹ 400 ($7).

Origin

– Brazilian amethyst prices range between ₹ 300 to ₹ 400 per carat ($4 to $6), and are usually higher than other origins because of superior color quality. On account of better clarity, African amethyst can also command decent money though that may differ from one stone to another.

Clarity

– Amethyst is largely free of visible inclusions. Although when present, they may appear like reddish brown needles or L-shaped bands and can reduce the overall worth of amethyst.

Cut & Shape

– A finely cut gemstone not only illuminates color and light better but can cleverly conceal the inclusions. Faceted gemstones are expensive than cabochons because of the stone wastage incurred in the process. On similar grounds, if overall quality remains same, round and oval shapes are cheaper than square or other customized shapes.

Carat weight

– Unlike other precious gemstones, amethyst is abundantly available in nature. For this reason, one may not find exponential increase in the price of amethyst vis a vis the carat weight.

Treatment

– Due to sufficient availability, amethyst is not that vulnerable to profiteering practices like synthetic processing or treatments. However, it may still be subjected to fracture-filling or color enhancement measures. Usually, natural amethyst is more valuable and astrologically compatible than synthetic or treated ones. To ensure value for money, we advise our customers to buy original, certified amethyst online or from reputed dealers.

Gemstone prices in India are calculated both in Carats as well as Ratti. Amethyst price per carat always amounts equal to Amethyst price per ratti.
1 Ratti = 0.91 Carats

Amethyst Quality

The quality of Amethyst is defined primarily by its color. Yet, before-hand knowledge of other factors can help our customers select the most competent option and buy the best quality Amethyst gemstone online as per their preference.

Color

– Amethyst color may range from light pink-violet to deep purple. Finest quality amethyst displays vividly saturated purple color (with or without red tints) and lacks color zoning completely. The gemstone should neither be too light that it waters down the color or too dark that it looks black in poor lighting. Also, one should carefully look for brown tints and color zones as they can lower the quality and overall worth of amethyst, marginally.

Clarity

– Amethyst is graded as Type - 2 gemstone on clarity standards, implying it is naturally cleaner than other precious gemstones. However, whenever present, inclusions in Amethyst exist in and as needles or L- shaped bands. A transparent amethyst without visible inclusions radiates light and color better than the translucent stones. As a rule, lesser the inclusions, better is the quality of amethyst. Since it is comfortably available in nature and quite affordable, it is not worthy to compromise on the clarity aspect when buying amethyst online or from dealers.

In gemology, Amethyst is recognized as a naturally occurring, purple colored semi-precious gemstone of Quartz mineral family. Green Amethyst on the other hand is not a different gemstone but the outcome of intense heat treatment done to change Amethyst color from purple to green. The term ‘Green Amethyst’ is a misnomer, meaning it is a false identity that misleads people who might be looking for Prasiolite. While both Amethyst and Prasiolite belong to same mineral family, they do not exist as mere color options but completely different gemstones with different market pricing. Since Amethyst is the most valued gemstone of quartz mineral family, people often try to pitch and sell Prasiolite as Green Amethyst for profiteering. The market value of such a heat-treated stone is far less than Amethyst or even Prasiolite. At GemPundit, you can buy original amethyst online certified by recognized laboratories to ensure a quality purchase.

African Amethyst is considered best for astrological use because of its intense, true purple color. However, since Brazilian and Siberian amethyst are decent enough in quality as well, they can also be worn. Considering that amethyst is not too expensive and astrologically important, we advise our customers to wear high quality amethyst which is color-consistent and inclusion free to receive maximum benefits.

Amethyst is recognized in vedic astrology as the substitute or upratna of blue sapphire which means it is capable of delivering results but not without having certain repercussions. When compared with the original astrological gemstone (in this case, Blue sapphire), a substitute takes much more time. In addition, the results may not meet with the expectations of the wearer. Amethyst though is suggested when a person is constrained by budget issues and is in no condition to buy blue sapphire.